The Cincy Fringe Festival returns to Over-the-Rhine in all its fringy glory

My first tip: Don’t think you can outwit
the Fringe. I like to say that the festival is best described as theater
roulette. Give the cylinder a whirl, pull the trigger and see what
comes at you. Sometimes it might be what you expect, but more often than
not you’ll be surprised.

Three CityBeat staffers do things on bikes they'd normally do in a car

A surprising thing happens when you carve out
some time in your schedule to travel by bike, even if you’re not an
expert — it’s a lot less complicated than it seems, and it’s likely to
be a lot more fun than you expect.

A generally agreed upon timeline of major bicycle developments

With a collective interest in
making people travel faster and farther with less effort, the public
praised, poked and prodded the two-wheeled (sometimes three- and
four-wheeled) machine at each level of its improvement.

Organized rides in the Queen City

Recreational bicycling groups are popping up around the city. And if
you’re apprehensive about bike riding again as an adult — either for
safety reasons, lack of city riding experience, fear of cars or you just
don’t know where to go — roll up to an organized ride.

Ohio Republicans continue their ill-conceived war on sex education, women’s rights and health care for the poor

Progressives often argue that society has made great strides, but looking at the budget proposal passed by the
Republican-controlled Ohio House, there
seems to be a strong reluctance by conservatives in power to accept the
scientific and social progress made in the past few decades.

Reviewing the outdated, overly conservative and just plain funny laws still on the books

We decided to look into Ohio and Northern Kentucky laws to see if there
was anything else totally absurd (possibly sexist) left in writing in
the Ohio Revised Code/Cincinnati Municipal Code/other codes. And there was nothing too bizarre, but
some of the laws’ requirements and wording are hilarious, incredibly
obvious and/or idiotic.

The Reds are primed to be awesome again this year

Last season, the Reds finished with
baseball’s second-best record and won the Central Division for the
second time in three years. It was a pretty fun year for Reds fans, who
saw the team win 97 games — the most since the 1976 Big Red Machine.

Before we set our sights on the
future of the program — one that looks bright despite the uncertainty
surrounded the university’s conference affiliation — we’ll look back at
the top 10 moments of the ’Cats’ 2012-13 season. Despite the frustrating
second half, there were many awesome dunks and cool things that
happened.

Deconstructing the food, games, booze and decor behind the Horseshoe, Cincinnati's first and only urban casino

We’ve already covered the social, political and economic angles of the development of the Horseshoe in previous CityBeat
issues, but for this issue, with no real agenda, we
decided to just wander a few blocks over to the Horseshoe after work to check out the behemoth and see what all
the fuss was about.

Reflections on a successful poker session and some free stuff

I didn’t mean to start the night off in
such an anti-social fashion, but the poker room manager surprisingly had
a seat open at a no-limit table when I walked up and, as is often the
case in public poker settings, the competition looked pretty weak.

Tips for a most fabulous casino experience

Glamble (glam-bl) v. –
the act of dressing in formal, eye-catching attire at a casino, with
the intent to meet interesting people and obtain excellent service
without spending a lot of money; a combination of the words “glamour”
and “gamble.”